Anglia Ruskin University Higher Education Corporation: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

DfE school register: Further educationEducationEast of EnglandChelmsford

Find a Tender organisation id5180Websitearu.ac.uk ↗

Open now1next deadline 18 Feb 2028
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months0-100% vs prior 12 months (7)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot30% single-bid · 4 bid reports
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.

Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share16%of 19 awarded procedures · 20 suppliers
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.

Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.

19 awarded tenders, 20 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Published award value, 24m£4.6mnet · on 4 of 4 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 100%
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

Open notices

1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
T24/22_Dynamic Purchasing System for Provision of Private Student Residential AccommodationDPS18 Feb 2028506d£8,000,000

What they buy
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What kind of work is bought here.

Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.

Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

How they buy
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

Last 24 months · 7 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract 86% (6 notices)
  • Dynamic purchasing system 14% (1 notices)
Procedure route
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Which procedures buyers here use.

Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.

  • Selective 57% (4 notices)
  • Open 43% (3 notices)
Typical bids per lot
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.

Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

3moderate · n=40% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.

Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.

Based on 7 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

46 of 7 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.

Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.

Based on 2 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

6.3% below estimateindicative · n=2

Who wins here
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Which suppliers win the most here.

Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.

All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Latus Group (IDC) Ltd15.3%1125 Nov 2024
Uni-Quest Ltd15.3%1125 Nov 2024
SJAA Consulting Ltd15.3%1126 Nov 2024
A2B Contract Cars15.3%1115 Oct 2024
Anything Is Possible Media Limited15.3%0128 Sept 2021
Net Natives Limitedframework/DPS on 115.3%018 Oct 2021
Monsoon Marketing Limited15.3%0124 Sept 2024
Hybrid News Limitedframework/DPS on 115.3%018 Oct 2021

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 16% of 19 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 20 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

£4.6mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 4 of 4 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 100%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£1.0m middle valuemoderate · n=4Middle half £838k–£1.3m.
Largest published awards
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The biggest published awards.

Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice.

A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
CT23/29_Student Occupational Health ServicesLatus Group (IDC) Ltd——£2,250,000 †
Student Recruitment ConversionUni-Quest Ltd——£1,000,000 †
End Point Assessment Independent AssessorsSJAA Consulting Ltd——£1,000,000 †
School of Medicine Student TransportA2B Contract Cars——£350,000 †

Recent procedures

Latest 37 of 37 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
T24/23_CCTV Replacement ProgrammeSecurity camerasOpen21 Feb 2025£2,000,000
T24/13_Student Residential Internet ProviderInternet servicesOpen11 Dec 2024£500,000
T24/01_End Point Assessment Independent Assessors (Police Constable)Adult-education services at university levelAwarded / complete26 Nov 2024—
T23/29_Student Occupational Health ServicesHealth servicesAwarded / complete25 Nov 2024—
T23/30_Student Recruitment ConversionBusiness services: lawAwarded / complete25 Nov 2024—
T23/28_School of Medicine Student TransportHire of passenger transport vehicles with driverAwarded / complete15 Oct 2024—
T23/20_University Student Paramedic Science UniformsOccupational clothingAwarded / complete24 Sept 2024—
T23/04_Distance Learning Strategic Digital MarketingAdvertising servicesAwarded / complete8 Mar 2024—
T23/15_Cambridge and Chelmsford Residential Summer Cleaning Services2 lotsAccommodation cleaning servicesOpen13 Dec 2023£500,000
T23/08_Fixed Wire TestingTechnical inspection and testing servicesOpen30 Nov 2023£300,000
T23/01_ARU Mobile AppSoftware programming and consultancy servicesOpen4 Aug 2023—
T22/23_Creative AgencyMarketing servicesAwarded / complete21 Jun 2023—
T22/47_Media Buying PG Marketing CampaignAdvertising and marketing servicesOpen30 May 2023—
T22/41_Media Buying UG Marketing CampaignAdvertising campaign servicesOpen18 Apr 2023—
T22/38_Provision of a DBS Umbrella Body for Student and StaffRecruitment servicesOpen17 Apr 2023—
T22/37_School of Medicine Occupational Health ServicesHealth and social work servicesOpen5 Apr 2023—
T22/26_ Design and Implementation of a University-Wide Enterprise Service Management (ESM) solutionIT software packageOpen10 Feb 2023—
T21/08_Design and Implementation of a University-wide Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Relationship ManagementCustomer Relation Management software development servicesAwarded / complete3 Feb 2023—
T22/08_Fire Safety MaintenanceRepair and maintenance servicesOpen26 Oct 2022—
T21/67_Provision of Digital Devices through a fund allocation schemeComputer equipment and suppliesAwarded / complete21 Oct 2022—

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Data coverage & method
  • Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
  • Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
  • Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£3.3m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 4 award records on 4 procedures (4 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 4 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
  • Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
  • Contract end dates: 0 of 20 published contracts carry a period end; 0 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (4 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-FTS-28061GB-FTS-28634GB-FTS-38000GB-FTS-5179

Canonical page id: GB-FTS-5180